What was the audition process like?
It was just one audition. I actually had read for this casting director for another project that I did not get. He remembered that I had given a good reading so he called me in. I don?t know how many girls they saw. I hardly remember it because it was like a year and a half or two years ago. But I just remember him saying, ?Wow, that was really good. Do you want this part??
Originally we shot the movie a year and a half ago.

It?s kind of a small part. I mean, you feel like I?m in the movie a lot more than I really am, just because they refer to me a lot. We actually re-shot the ending recently. Since the day that we shot the scenes that I did, National Lampoon has since then bought the movie and a lot of it has changed. They test-screened it with audiences and it was like unanimous that they all wanted [spoiler deleted ? but sum it up to say a different ending]. They just decided to put me a little bit more in the movie. A lot of the stuff, too, is not going to be in the film because it didn?t make the PG-13 rating. So I?m in the DVD a lot more than the film.

This was originally rated R. Did they have to make a lot of changes to get it down to a PG-13 rating?
They just had to do a little tweaking. Not tons of changes but? Like when I did ?American Wedding? the film, we had stuff that was scripted especially for the DVD. We knew what was going to be in the movie. But then there were the parts that were supposed to be in the movie and they were okayed by Universal and everything, but then once they were editing it I guess they decided that some of that stuff was even too much.

The stuff that was supposed to be in the film even got pushed to the DVD. I guess they just don?t want to take any chances. Even in ?American Wedding? I?m hardly in the film, but in the DVD, I?m all over it.

Were there extra scenes filmed specifically for the ?Gold Diggers? unrated DVD?
Yes, I believe so.

Did you do anything special to put your co-star Will Friedle at ease?
No, let?s see? We talked about how the kiss was going to be. ?Are we going to really kiss? Are we going to stage kiss?? I just told him I didn?t really know how to fake it so we decided we were just going to go for it. He?s so sweet. Then when we had to do the topless version for the DVD. I think that didn?t do much to make him more comfortable, I would say. Everybody worries that I?m going to get uncomfortable but I think it makes everybody else more uncomfortable (laughing).

At what point did National Lampoon come onboard?
Gary had shot the movie and it?s amazing how he did it on such a low budget. He?s really a genius. I have a lot of respect for him and I?ve been learning a lot about the other side of the business through him. But he took it to a film festival and I think National Lampoon contacted him and had a real interest in it. There have been a lot of changes to it since then. It?s written very cleverly. It?s National Lampoon so it?s very funny, but it doesn?t rely on all the over-the-top sort of gross-out humor. It doesn?t need all that because it?s so clever. I can?t imagine anyone not liking it. I just saw it for the first time recently and it was even funnier than I thought it was going to be, and I knew it was going to be funny. I was really impressed.

You?ve also completed a part in ?Standing Still.? Is that a comedy?
?Standing Still? is actually just a film that I did a cameo in. It?s another directorial debut with Matt Weiss. I played an undercover cop posing as a hooker.

What else are you working on?
I?ve been reading some scripts and I?m actually in the very, very early stages of helping to create and write a sitcom, which would be another dream. I love doing films but I think that would be fun to do a sitcom. And I have really great idea ? I can?t really talk too much about it yet, it?s at the very beginning stage, but it?s really exciting and I think it?s a cute idea. So I?m working on that and just back to auditioning, really. It?s been kind of a crazy year. I also have a show in England that I do. It?s called ?The Grill? and it?s kind of like a cross between ?Saturday Night Live? meets ?madTV? meets ?The View.? We get to do the comedy skits and all that stuff. I co-host with Vernon Kaye who is like the hot stud over there. He?s like the Ashton Kutcher type.